Udo Samel

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit (2023)

Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collectors have to be reworked due to numerous road closures, chaos rages. ...

Serviam – I Will Serve (2022)

An all-girl Catholic boarding school near Vienna for the wealthy Austrian elite and their children. The school is thriving, but faith is declining and the upper floors are de­ser­ted. The head of the institution, a young energetic nun, fights with ardor ...

Rival (2021)

Young Roman and his mother Oksana leave Ukraine and go to Germany, where she works illegally while they both live with Gert, an old widower who tries to befriend Roman, who struggles for his mother's attention and sees Gert as a rival. ...

The Story of My Wife (2021)

A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in. ...

Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias (2019)

Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrus ...

How I Taught Myself to Be a Child (2019)

Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short sto ...

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)

The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. ...

Life Guidance (2018)

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves ...

Angst (2017)

Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife Rebecca have bought a beautiful 1920s house and move in with their children. The only condition for the sale was that the former owner's brother would be allowed to continue living in the basement. ...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Tide (2017)

Myths of the sunken city of Ys leads to the murder of a young couple. ...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Pride (2017)

An eccentric former actress finds a body which disappears into thin air. ...

Bubis - Das letzte Gespräch (2017)

Night of a 1000 Hours (2016)

When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair ...

Goodbye Berlin (2016)

Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eventful journey. ...

Letzte Ausfahrt Gera: Acht Stunden mit Beate Zschäpe (2016)

Beate Zschäpe has broken her silence, but her statements raise doubts. The docudrama shows how interrogators tried to find out the truth from her in 2012. ...

Das Zeugenhaus (2014)

Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess assigned to take care of them. What was her secret? ...

Alles Schwindel (2013)

The catastrophe is perfect: Gustav Klimt's world-famous "kiss" was stolen from the museum. What is a problem for some is a salvation for others. For the impoverished Count Leopold, the loss of the picture is an advantage, because now he can earn the sum in ...

Friends Forever (2012)

Set in the midst of World War II and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys in the choir is a Jew and they must find him immediately. ...

My Best Enemy (2011)

Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary ...

Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus (2010)

Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are co ...

Carlos (2010)

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police. ...

Domain (2009)

Nadia is in her late 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre. ...

Palermo Shooting (2008)

After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down? ...

A Night at the Grand Hotel (2008)

Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr (2006)

Daniel Käfer's time out in Ausseerland is coming to an end. He has to focus on his new career. But his journey ends in Hallstatt. His acquaintance with the young Gerd Gamsjäger and his mother leads to dramatic events. In his exuberance, Käfer causes a s ...

Die Nachrichten (2005)

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg. ...

The Call of the Toad (2005)

A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass' novel. ...

Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch (2005)

Editor-in-chief Daniel Käfer is unemployed. His magazine "Intelligence" was discontinued due to "too high a standard". Now he wants to think about his future in Ausseerland, where he spent his best summer vacations, but his return to the realm of his chil ...

Go for Zucker (2004)

Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today's Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge. ...

Silentium (2004)

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself. ...

Der Auftrag (2004)

Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (2003)

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a Russian prince, that brings together all the main characters in various disguises. The three-act journey fro ...

Treibjagd (2003)

The love of his life, Svetlana, chose suicide twelve years ago. At that time, Stein resigned from the Federal Intelligence Service. Since then, the ex-agent no longer searches for criminals, but is a professional hunter on the prowl. One morning, Stein com ...

Das Haus der toten Augen (2002)

Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the local home for the blind. Inspector Higgins suspects that something is not right there. ...

Blumen für Polt (2001)

Gendarmerie inspector Simon Polt in the Weinviertel region finds it too much of a coincidence when crook Riebel is killed in a motorcycle accident and his friend Willi is found dead on the same day. But the residents of the otherwise peaceful Lower Austria ...

The Piano Teacher (2001)

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her. ...

Deutschlandspiel (2000)

The Volcano (1999)

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor. ...

Die Braut (1999)

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christian ...

Woyzeck (1999)

Hundert Jahre Brecht (1998)

In the Name of Innocence (1997)

The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender. ...

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997)

Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained in military drill. After his release, he once again lodges with relatives, his sister and brother-in-law. ...

Liebe Lügen (1997)

The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, falls in love with the mistress of one of his best customers, a man who is constantly in debt. Under pressure from the mafia, the customer persuades his girlf ...

The Killer Condom (1996)

In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and fle ...

Angst hat eine kalte Hand (1996)

Nurse Hedi Zoll is overwhelmed and kidnapped in the parking lot of her clinic. After a week, she reports to the police intact, but she can't remember anything. Crime officer Kim Ossawald is the only one who believes the nurse. The track leads them to the t ...

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995)

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve. ...

Auf Teufel komm raus (1995)

Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a young photographer shows up and a deadly race between the two commences. ...

Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht (1995)

Hölderlin-Comics (1994)

Second part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel and Otto Sander in cast. ...

Back to Square One (1994)

Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ignored writer. Not only must they contend with each other, they must also deal with the bankers who have the power ...

The Film Narrator (1993)

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances ...

The Rebellion (1993)

The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andr ...

Kaspar Hauser (1993)

In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothing about his origins or family. The film depicts the - presumed - circumstances under which Hauser was held ...

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans. ...

Wehner – die unerzählte Geschichte (1993)

The Last U-Boat (1993)

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, th ...

Der Showmaster (1993)

Die Elefantenbraut (1993)

Schuld und Sühne (1992)

The stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" marked Polish film director Andrzej Wajda's return to the theater. Following the play's premiere in Poland, it was staged at Berlin's Schaubühne theater in 1988, and its success led to a f ...

Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland (1992)

An experimental documentary film about Friedrich Hölderlin. In the middle of the film, there is a short excerpt from a Nazi propaganda film: O. E. Hasse reads "Der Tod fürs Vaterland" (Death for the Fatherland), the poem that was given to German soldiers ...

Der einsame Weg (1991)

Winckelmanns Reisen (1990)

Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist's shops, he rehearses what he intends to say, shakes the dandruff from his hair and slips into an innocuous pair of shoes. None of this helps. Wink ...

Vorwärts (1990)

The Seventh Continent (1989)

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister. ...

Der Mitwisser (1989)

17-year-old Paul kills someone. His father decides to flee with him to the south of France. Their relationship is put to the test there. While Paul frees himself from his feelings of guilt, his father feels more and more like a failure. ...

The Case of Mr. Spalt (1988)

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film. ...

Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich (1986)

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus. ...

The Death of the White Stallion (1985)

This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and nobility and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally ...

Der Mord mit der Schere (1984)

Variation (1983)

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher. ...

Class Enemy (1983)

Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers. ...

Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe (1980)

Big and Little (1980)

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß. ...

Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 (1980)

The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, however, their tight-knit group unravels. One leader, Paul, becomes a Nazi. ...

The End of the Rainbow (1979)

Uwe Friessner's first feature, At the End of the Rainbow, follows the exploits of a West Berlin teenager named Jimmi who ekes out a living through petty theft and part-time hustling, hangs out in punk clubs, and who, for reasons which this film subtly deta ...

Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen (1979)

Knife in the Head (1978)

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trau ...

Rückfälle (1977)

After rehab, Manfred Burger seems to have got his alcohol addiction under control and is trying to reorganize his life. Although he is now sober, he soon realizes that society cannot cope with his illness: His relationship with his wife Eva is on its last ...